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UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

GILBERT E. JONES, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,620, dated Pebruary'7, 1888..

Application filed August 24, 1887. Serial No. 247,754. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GILBERT E. JoNEs,a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Quoins, of which thefollowing is a specification. 1

This invention relates to improvements in quoins, as set forth in thefollowing specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a galley with a quoin.Fig. 2is a perspective view of a quoin. Similarletters indicatecorresponding parts. In the drawings, the letter A indicates a galley.BB are the sides of the galley. O'is the type or matter. D is aside-stick, and E is a quoin.

By placing the head F of the quoin into a recess, G, in the side-stickand then moving the quoin so as to bring its cam-surface I against aside of the galley, the type will be locked up. As seen in the drawings,the camsurface or bearing-surface I of the quoin is formed on an arm oneportion of which is free, and which has thus a certain elasticity orspringiness. This elasticity or yielding of the bearingsurface I enablesthe quoin to be tightly jammed or pressed into place, so that the matterwill be securely locked up. Said quoin, as seen in Fig. 1, may beapplied to a side-stick What I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described quoin E, provided at one end with the head F andat its other 5 end with an arm having an elastic bearing.

surface, I, substantially as shown and de scribed.

2. The combination, with the side-stick D,

'having concaved recess G, of the quoin E, pro- 50 vided at one end witha head, F, to engage said-recess, and at its other end with an arm'having an elastic bearing-surface, I, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 5 5 hand and seal in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GILBERT n. JON-ES. [n s] I Witnesses:

W. G. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

